From: Nick Logan <nick_logan@symantec.com>
To: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@suse.de>
Cc: Ian Pratt <m+Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk>, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: sfdisk -g support in DomU
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 10:00:55 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <437C54D7.8040907@symantec.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <437B2455.9050200@suse.de>
Gerd Knorr wrote:
>
> IMHO the applications should be fixed to not depend on the disk
> geometry. There is LBA addressing for disks since ages, all the CHS
> addressing you still find are some more or less random, artificial
> values picked to satisfy prehistoric software ;)
>
Agreed, but it does mean that some prehistoric (mature) software will
not run unchanged in DomU.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-17 10:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-16 11:21 sfdisk -g support in DomU Ian Pratt
2005-11-16 12:21 ` Gerd Knorr
2005-11-17 10:00 ` Nick Logan [this message]
2005-11-16 21:22 ` Adam Heath
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2005-11-16 14:46 Ian Pratt
2005-11-16 10:08 Nick Logan
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